Salted miso brownies

Ingredients
- 4½ tablespoons milled chia seeds
- 150g flavourless coconut oil
- 250g vegan dark chocolate (85%), broken into small pieces
- 420g light brown Muscovado sugar
- 120g plain flour
- 3½ tablespoons white miso
- 1 teaspoon flaky sea salt
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan/200°C/400°F/gas 6 and line a 20cm x 22cm cake tin with greaseproof paper. In a small bowl, mix the milled chia seeds with 270ml of water and set aside.
- 2
Place the coconut oil and broken chocolate in a medium-sized saucepan and set over a low heat. Stir occasionally until melted, then mix in the sugar, flour and miso, and crumble in the salt flakes. Finally, stir in the soaked and bloomed chia seeds, then pour into the lined tin and gently shake to distribute the mixture.
- 3
Place on the middle shelf of the oven for 45 minutes, then remove. The brownies might be wobbly in the middle, but they will soon settle down and become deliciously fudgy. Leave to cool completely, then cut into 16 squares.



